February 02, 2009

Sid and Nancy

Sid&Nancy... Kurt&Courtney... Amy&Blake. Selfdestructive people always manage to find each other. Sid and Nancy are the best example. A violent punker and a heroin addicted groupie find each other somehow and fall madly in love.

They are absorbed by their failing carreers and drug-addiction and resign into a small and filthy bedroom at the Hotel Chelsea. Nancy dies in the bathroom after being stapped once in the abdomen, nobody knows who did it and Sid lacks any memory of that night. He himself dies less than four months later after overdosing on heroin. A tragic and morbid story Shakespeare would have had troubles coming up with. This is living fast and dying young put into practice. There's a very small chance anyone will be able to achieve accomplishment of the motto better than Sid&Nancy did. That's that. Congratulations. Don't try this at home kids.